Brian Kilmeade, the co-host of Fox & Friends, has apologized for remarks he made on the Fox News Channel suggesting that inter-culture marriages aren’t pure. Kilmeade made the original comment on July 8.

Brian Kilmeade: “We keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other” —

Gretchen Carlson: “Are you sure you’re not suffering from some of the causes of dementia right now?”

Brian Kilmeade: “I mean, the Swedes — see, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes, because they marry other Swedes, because that’s the rule. Finland — Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America, we marry everybody. So we’ll marry Italians and Irish.”

Dave Briggs: “OK, so this study does not apply?”

Brian Kilmeade: “Does not apply to us.”

Unity: Journalists of Color had condemned Kilmeade’s words, saying they lent credence to “the basest of white supremacist ideologies, the notion that white people and non-white people are of different species, with the white race as 'pure.'”

Meanwhile, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan is coming under criticism for recent comments made on MSNBC during a discussion about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who he claimed was an affirmative action candidate.

Pat Buchanan: “White men were 100 percent of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100 percent of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, 100 percent of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100 percent of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country built, basically, by white folks.”

Last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow aired a seven-minute response repudiating Buchanan’s claims.